Begin by thinking and brainstorming ways that make you unique. Come up with about three or four topics to get you started. These things could be as simple as your hair or eye color or as complex as your family structure and personal fears. Then create sentences with those topics, beginning with phrases like “Just because”, “If you think”, “I may be…but that doesn’t mean” or anything similar. Use those sentences as the first lines for each of your three stanzas. Under each of the topics, explain what it doesn’t mean. Basically, the poem asks you to describe what people assume about you (stereotypes) in the first line of each stanza, followed by three lines explaining what you are NOT. For the final line, direct the reader to do something.
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: You're Not Even Close Even though I’m soft-spoken, My strength is in my thoughts, Thoroughly defined and ingenious Which you ridicule the moment you hear them
Just because I have brown eyes, Doesn’t mean I’m ordinary Or just another girl Without beauty or substance Who might settle for someone less than she deserves
You may think you know me, but you haven’t even tried because you are so wrapped up in the world that you think revolves around you.
You think I am weak, but you need to take a closer look.
Three full stanzas (four lines per stanza minimum) with a direct single line or couplet at the end. You will need a title as well. NEEDS TO BE TYPED!
Begin by thinking and brainstorming ways that make you unique. Come up with about three or four topics to get you started. These things could be as simple as your hair or eye color or as complex as your family structure and personal fears. Then create sentences with those topics, beginning with phrases like “Just because”, “If you think”, “I may be…but that doesn’t mean” or anything similar. Use those sentences as the first lines for each of your three stanzas. Under each of the topics, explain what it doesn’t mean. Basically, the poem asks you to describe what people assume about you (stereotypes) in the first line of each stanza, followed by three lines explaining what you are NOT. For the final line, direct the reader to do something.
Follow this example and the others as attached in this document
You're Not Even Close
Even though I’m soft-spoken,
My strength is in my thoughts,
Thoroughly defined and ingenious
Which you ridicule the moment you hear them
Just because I have brown eyes,
Doesn’t mean I’m ordinary
Or just another girl
Without beauty or substance
Who might settle for someone less than she deserves
You may think you know me,
but you haven’t even tried
because you are so wrapped up
in the world that you think revolves around you.
You think I am weak, but you need to take a closer look.
Three full stanzas (four lines per stanza minimum) with a direct single line or couplet at the end. You will need a title as well. NEEDS TO BE TYPED!